§ The result
Checkr leads Knockri by 7 points.
Checkr scores 54 and Knockri 47 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and Video interview cohorts. Knockri takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for Checkr, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Checkr 70, Knockri 55, 20% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Checkr builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, Knockri under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Knockri is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Checkr | Knockri |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Knockri 55
3.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Knockri 35
1.8 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Knockri 55
1.1 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Knockri 55
1.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Knockri 60
0.7 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Knockri 35
0.4 weighted points to Knockri
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Knockri.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Knockri | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 47 (F) | +7 | +7.2 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Checkr | Knockri | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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